...who spoke to Fox News on Thursday relayed the number before issuing a warning — the organization may mutate into “AQI 2.0” ( Al Qaeda in Iraq ).
To better highlight the kind of resources being deployed against Islamic State, Col. Daniel Manning, the......

...fears remain that the terror group could go underground and morph into something he called “AQI 2.0,” or another version Al Qaeda in Iraq .
In August, Lt. Gen. Sean MacFarland said about 45,000 combatants had been taken off the battlefields.
The......

I can't predict the future. I do know that they have shown the ability to come back. Al Qaeda in Iraq gave birth to [IS]," Lieutenant-General Townsend said.
"What we have to do is we have got to play this......

As the sound of the evening adhan, or call to prayer, cuts through the silent fog hanging over the banks of the Tigris in the Iraqi city of Samarra, Jasim Mohammed, a pilgrim from Basra, arrives at the al-Askary Mosque.
The golden domed-building,......

I can't predict the future. I do know that they have shown the ability to come back. Al Qaeda in Iraq gave birth to ISIS, Daesh," said Townsend, using two acronyms to refer to Islamic State, also known as......

Barack Obama has said the United States "must never hesitate to act when necessary", as he acknowledged that the situation in Afghanistan is still tough and threat from terrorists, ISIL in particular has metastasized in other parts of Middle......

It's not just about a state, it's about a new world order
As the US prepares for targeted air strikes against ISIS in Iraq, the fighting continues. The success of the Islamic State presents a challenge not just to the region but to world order,......

The President-elect’s determination to reassert America’s status as the world’s pre-eminent military superpower is reflected in the clutch of retired senior military officers he has appointed to his cabinet.
Mike Flynn, the new National Security......

President-elect Donald Trump has gone out of his way to portray himself as a hard man in the fight against terror.
He’d “quickly and decisively bomb the hell” out of the Islamic State (IS), he has claimed, and he’d even deploy US troops into Iraq –......

Muhammad al-Adnani, the group's spokesman and chief strategist, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike. Photo / Supplied
For a man given to fiery rhetoric and long-winded sermons, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani became oddly quiet during his last summer as the......

In a speech in Baghdad on September 3, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi promised that his troops would “fully retake” Mosul, seat of power of the Islamic State (IS) in the country. A few weeks later, in line with the Prime Minister’s plans, a......

The Iraqi parliament has passed a bill recognising the Shia militia fighters, the Popular Mobilisation Forces, as a government entity operating alongside the military.
The bill passed on Saturday will see the establishment of the Popular......

...of the Iraqi capital, which has for more than a decade endured near-daily violence blamed on ISIS or its forerunner, al Qaeda in Iraq, and which mostly targeted members of Iraq’s Shiite majority.
The gas station bombing underlined the......

...of the Iraqi capital, which has for more than a decade endured near-daily violence blamed on IS or its forerunner, al Qaeda in Iraq, and which mostly targeted members of Iraq’s Shiite majority.
The gas station bombing underlined the......

...troop drawdown in Iraq, which some experts say created a power vacuum that allowed ISIS to rise up.
"We beat [ Al Qaeda in Iraq ] in 2011," Flynn said. "We proved that their version of, their Allah, couldn't help them on the battlefield.......

...troop drawdown in Iraq, which some experts say created a power vacuum that allowed ISIS to rise up.
“We beat [ Al Qaeda in Iraq ] in 2011,” Flynn said. “We proved that their version of, their Allah, couldn’t help them on the battlefield.......

The city is closely associated with the rise of the Islamic State and its forerunner, al Qaeda in Iraq, and has become infamous as a nest of Sunni terrorists. In 2014, the city's Shiite residents were expelled......

A member of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF) kisses a shiite flag on the top of a military vehicle on the outskirts of Bartila, east of Mosul, during an operation to attack Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq, October 19, 2016.Azad......

Tal Afar, a city 40 miles west of ISIS-held Mosul, is poised to become “the city of revenge” for Iraq’s powerful Shia militias who were forced out of the city after an insurgency by the Islamic State’s predecessor, al-Qaeda in Iraq, in 2005.
“The......

...by the New York Times and Human Rights Watch, but admitted the US prison system in Iraq in the post-war period 'absolutely' helped radicalise Iraqis who later joined Al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) and its successor organisation, ISIL."
Relat......

...provided details of the names, ages, and origin of foreign fighters.
When American forces battled the progenitor of IS, Al Qaeda in Iraq , they discovered large caches of documents which revealed organisational structure and financing.
First......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
"Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

...intelligence efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq and helping to oversee Special Operations forces during their battle against al Qaeda in Iraq, a terror group that many see as the parent organization of ISIS.
“Mike Flynn has a lot of experience on......

Patrick Cockburn is a journalist for the Independent who has covered the Middle East for decades and is credited with forecasting the Islamic State’s ascendance in 2014. Seymour Hersh has called him “the best western journalist at work in Iraq......

...of Iraq, in which more than 4,000 US troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and which led to the creation of al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner to the violent, ultra-hardline Islamic State group.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's weapons......

...of Iraq, in which more than 4,000 US troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and which led to the creation of al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner to the violent, ultra-hardline Islamic State group.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's weapons......

...troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and which led to the creation of al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner to the violent, ultra-hardline Islamic State group.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s weapons......

...troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and which led to the creation of al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner to the violent, ultra-hardline Islamic State group.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's weapons......

...troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died, and which led to the creation of al Qaeda in Iraq, the forerunner to the violent, ultra-hardline Islamic State group.
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's weapons......

ISIL fighters in Iraq launched a series of suicide bomb attacks in the city of Fallujah and an oasis town south of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens.
The attacks came as Iraqi forces and their allies continue fighting......

...group of attackers armed with suicide vests and light weapons killed at least six people southwest of Baghdad on Monday, local officials said.
The attack in Ain al-Tamer involved six suicide bombers, some of whom may have been killed by security......

During the Iraq War, the US and its allies in the Iraqi government wiped out Al Qaeda in Iraq , the predecessor to ISIS, in most of the country. But the group then went underground and reemerged later as......

During the Iraq War, the US and its allies in the Iraqi government wiped out Al Qaeda in Iraq , the predecessor to ISIS, in most of the country. But the group then went underground and reemerged later as......

...funding, training, and airstrikes to support moderate opposition to Assad’s regime.
In the same year, ISIS, an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq , filled the power vacuum in the desert along the borders of the two adjacent, troubled nations. By almost......

...funding, training, and airstrikes to support moderate opposition to Assad’s regime.
In the same year, ISIS, an offshoot of Al Qaeda in Iraq , filled the power vacuum in the desert along the borders of the two adjacent, troubled nations. By almost......